About the Book
Table of Contents:
Part 1 Various ways to rhyme: the diners in the kitchen, James Whitcomb Riley; Sheridan's calendar, Anon; Tewkesbury road, John Masefield; Frutta di Mare, Geoffrey Scott; racing the wind, Moira Andrew; how the daughters come down at Dunoon, H. Cholmondeley Pennell; conversation, Gerard Benson; the ruling power, Thomas Hood; the wide-eyed stride poem, Tony Charles; internal rhyme, Mary Holtby; Zoe's ear-rings, Kit Wright; frying panic, Bill Greenwell; eletelephony, Laura Richards; an old couple living in Gloucester, Anon; sonnet, Marjory Fleming. Part 2 Portrait gallery: wha me mudder do, Grace Nichols; breakfast, Noel Petty; tidying up, Simon Pitt; you will soon get warm as you run up and down, Peter Sansom; from "The Poet and the Fly", C.S. Calverley; the sniffle, Ogden Nash; full moon, Victoria Sackville-West; who?, Roy Fuller; simple tings, Jean "Binta" Breeze; granny granny please comb my hair, Grace Nichols; from "Tommy Big-Eyes", T.E. Brown; Pembroke, William Bealby-Wright; the gymnast, Alistair Samson. Part 3 Places and their people: banana and mackerel, James Berry; composed upon Westminster Bridge, William Wordsworth; on the footpath at Old Leigh, Katie Mallett; souvenir from weston-super-mare, Libby Houston; from "A Nocturnal Sketch", Thomas Hood; uphill..., Vernon Scannell; the Morris dancers, Thomas Morley; the dancer, Joseph Campbell; who unplugged the fridge?, John Coldwell; wet playtime, Dave Ward; the proper way to leave a room, Gelett Burgess; cross-patch, Anon. Part 4 Food for thought: fish pie with orchestra, Judith Nicholls; calendar poem, Anon; Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley; from "To James Smith", Robert Burns; healthfood soup, Anon; herb the superb's hound the sound poem, Cicely Herbert; sausage and mash, A.P. Herbert; the tryst, John B. Tabb; O I C, Anon; skin, John Sweetman; the concrete poem, Noel Petty; wake, Langston Hughes. Part 5 Time for some stories: the river's tale, Rudyard Kipling; the hippopotamus's birthday, E.V. Rieu; dame duck's first lecture on education, Aunt Effie; zippety-doo, Anon; the day after, Wes Magee; the pied piper of Hamelin, Robert Browning and Gerard Benson; chicken dinner, Valerie Bloom; unwillingly to school, Gregory Harrison; a tale of two citizens, Gerard Benson; waste, Harry Graham; wolf, George Murphy. Part 6 Birds and beasts great and small: two old crows, Vachel Lindsay; froglet, Robert Hull; reverie in rat week, A.R.D. Fairburn; the moo-cow-moo, Edmund Vance Cook; riddle, traditional; lay not up, L.W. Grensted; the snake, Richard Edwards; Mississippi alligator, Robin Mellor; curious creatures, Tony Turner; owl, Frank McDonald; woodpecker, Peter Norman; bat, Catherine Benson; mouse's nest, John Clare; a three-toed tree toad's ode, Anon. Part 7 Moonshine and dream-dust: dream-dust, Langston Hughes; you've wounded the sky, Leo Aylen; the land of counterpane, Robert Louis Stevenson; a visit from abroad, James Stephens; London city, Russell Hoban; from the
